Souvenirs d'enfant; les prisonniers passent (Childhood memories; prisoners pass by)

Place Europe: France
Accession Number ART50143
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 38.3 x 57 cm
Object type Print
Physical description photoengraving on Japan paper; edition: 196/300
Maker Forain, Jean-Louis
Place made France: Paris
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

In a bomb-devastated village, a little girl views a column of German prisoners marching past, and asks her mother: 'Tell me, mummy!...Are they the ones who killed daddy?' Coutin 1987 (66D). This work was published in 'Le Figaro', 23 February 1916, p. 3 (66A). There is a drawing of this subject in a private collection (66B). It was included in 'De la Marne au Rhin' I, 64 (66E).